Re: webcam not recognised ubuntu 64-bit 10.04 LTS
Peter Robinson <[email protected]> Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:45:54 +1300
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On 02/12/11 16:37, Robin Paulson wrote: > On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:20:56 +1300, Peter Robinson wrote: >> I've been helping a friend (via email) in an attempt to set up a new >> Logitech C270 webcam with his ubuntu box. >> >> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsMultimediaWebCamerasLogitech >> >> suggests that it should work ok. >> >> Have installed cheese as an experiment - no live streaming. >> >> Expected the device ID for this webcam to be 046d:0825 so tried >> >> dmesg | grep 046d:0825 >> >> which did not yield any clues. >> >> The system appears not to recognise the new device when it's plugged >> into a known good USB port. Device not listed in output of lsusb. >> No relevant entries at all in syslog or kern.log - any other logs that >> should be checked? Would you expect to see some sort of attempt at >> communication in the logs, even if it's to indicate that the >> communication has failed? > > what does dmesg give you, immediately after it's plugged in? > Very odd, I've been told that no entries are added to the output of dmesg as a result of plugging it in. The webcam must be faulty? _______________________________________________ NZLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.linux.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nzlug